Quotes About Persistence

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I'm a one-track mind: Once I start something, I have to finish it.

People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

It's important to complete things and finish what you started.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

The more you back yourself, the more consistent you become in finishing the game.

If I make a film like 'Better Luck Tomorrow' or 'Finishing the Game,' I'll protect it with everything I have.

I've always believed in finishing where you started. I think there's a lot to be said with that.

I think what is most important to me is to be competitive week-in and week-out - not winning a race one week and then not finishing.